Ph.D. in Philosophy, Lecturer, Recourse Center of Humanitarian Education, Novosibirsk State University

Address:
Zolotodolinskaya street, 9, apt. 25
Novosibirsk,
630 090, Russia
Tel.: (383-2) 33-34-26
E-mail: mailto:barch@mail.nsk.ru

The extra-curriculum interdisciplinary seminar for the students and postgraduates of Novosibirsk State University.
It was started as a master class in English in 1994 under the name of «Sex and Gender» and was held together with S. Lindemann.
The outline below was compliled in the framework of the project «Prophyllaxy of Sexism Among Youth» supported by the MacArthur Foundation. The seminar was held during a year and a half every week of the academic year and included presentations by T. Barchunova, participants of the Seminar and invited lecturers.
Two topics were not covered (pornography and prostitution).
Besides the books and papers indicated in the reading list the papers from the Russian feminist and sociological periodics were used.
Since then the outline was not updated (besides the book by I. Kon which was used in its English version first).

Course outline

1. Gender system (stereotypes, practices and attitudes)

1.1. Sex and gender. The evolution of biological and medical ideas about sex.

• V. Je. Kagan. Basic concepts of biology and psychology about sex (Vospitatelu o sexologee). Moscow, 1991;
• I. Kon. Introduction to sexology (Vvedenije v sexologijou). Moscow, 1989.
• I. Kon. The Sexual Culture in Russia. 1997.
• Lorber J. (ed.) Paradoxes of Gender. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1994.
• Bullough V.L. Sexual variance in society and history. The University of Chicago Pr., 1976.
• L. Schiebinger. The Mind Has No Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern Science. 1989.
• Michel Foucault. Histoire de la sexualite. (Rus. transl.)

1.2. Gender as a social construction.

1.3. Gender ideals and gender roles.

• Zdravomyslova Je. , Temkina A. The Social Construction of Gender and the Gender System in Russia. In:
• Zdravomyslova Je., Tjomkina A. (eds.) Gender Dimension of the Social and Political Participation under Transition (IN Russian). St. Petersburg, 1996. P. 5-13.(In Russian)
• Voronina O. Gender as a Concept of Feminist Philosophy (In Russian). In: Philosophical Studies. Moscow, 1995. No
• Abubikirova N. What Is Gender? (In Russian). In: From the Original Sin to High Technologies. Update Thoughts on Women Issues. St. Petersburg, Bojanych Publishers, 1996. P. 12-18.
• Lorber J. (ed.) Paradoxes of Gender. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1994.
• L.L. Lindsey. Gender Roles. A Sociological Perspective. 1990.
• Smelser N. J. Sociology. Moscow. 1993.
• A. Posadskaya (ed.) Women in Russia. Verso. 1995

1.4. Gender roles and religion. Christianity and Paganism.

• Joanna Hubbs. Mother Russia. The feminine Myth in Russian Culture. Indiana Univ. Pr. 1988. Gromyko M.M. The World of the Russian Village. Moscow, «Molodja Gvardija», 1991.
• V. Ja. Propp. The Historical Roots of the Magic Tale (Istoricheskije Korni volshebnoj skazki). Leningrad, 1986.
• Anna Natalia Malahovskaja. The Apology of Baba Yaga (Apologija Baby Jagi). In: Preobrajenije. The Russian Feminist Magazine. 1994. N 2, p. 21-49.

2. Stereotypes and Attitudes

2.1. Stereotypes as socialization agents.

• Smelser N. J. Sociology. Moscow. 1993.
• Lorber J. (ed.) Paradoxes of Gender. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1994.
• L.L. Lindsey. Gender Roles. A Sociological Perspective. 1990.

2.2 Gender stereotypes as a semiotic system. The semiotic oppositions constituting the gender system (active –– passive; responsibility –– irresponsibility; intellectual –– emotional etc.

• T.V. Barchunova. A Sexist Primer / ECO magazine, 1994, n 3.

2.3 Cross-cultural analysis of gender stereotypes.

• Bullough V.L. Sexual variance in society and history. The University of Chicago Pr., 1976.
• E.E. Vardiman. Die Frau in der Antike (in Russian). Moscow, Nauka, 1990. 2.3.1. Russian gender roles from the Western point of view Yale Richmond. From Nyet to Da. Understanding Russians. Intercultural Press, Inc., 1992. Ralph and Jennifer Ennis with Paula Rinehart. An Introduction to the Russian Soul. 1995. Joanna Hubbs. Mother Russia. The feminine Myth in Russian Culture. Indiana Univ. Pr. 1988. Barchunova T. The World of the Russian Village Viewed from Moscow, and Hamshire // Feminism: East and West. Materials of the International Conference. - ST. Petersburg, 1996. 2.4. Russia as a stereotyping community. Gender stereotypes and national stereotypes. Gender stereotyping and stereotyping of social groups and strata. Lotman Ju. Essays on the Russian Culture. The Everyday Life of the Russian Gentry (XVIII –– beginning of the XIX centuries). (In Russian). - St. Petersburg, «Iskusstvo - ST.P.», 1994. A. Posadskaya (ed.) Women in Russia. Verso. 1995 George L. Mosse. Nationalism and Sexuality. Middle-Class Morality and Sexual Norms in Modern Europe. The Univ. of Wisconsin Press. 1985. 2.5. Gender stereotyping and media. Stereotyping in different types of media and popular genres and stereotyping. 2.5.1. Newspapers. The discussion of the Women’s issues column in the Independent Newspaper (Moscow). 2.5.2. Magazines. Magazines for women and magazines for men. 2.5.3. Television. The soap operas syndrome. 2.5.4. Pop and rock songs 2.5.5. Typology of male and female characters in media. political leaders and activists; a wife of a political leader as an object of mass media; the phenomenon of Raisa Gorbachjova; the national «heroes», including the historical figures; art people; artists and their Muses; businessmen and businesswomen; professionals; clergy and religious people; criminals, prostitutes; women and men as protagonists of humorous graphic and narrative genres; Gail Dines & Jean M.Humez (eds.) Gender, Race and Class in Media. A Text Reader. Sage Publishers. Thousand Oaks, London, New Delhi, 1995. Naomi Wolf. The Beauty Myth. How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women. Anchor Books. Doubleday. New York et al., 1991 Lorber J. (ed.) Paradoxes of Gender. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1994. Images of Women in Russian Periodicals to-day (Obrazy jenshin v sovremennoy rossijskoy journalistike). Moscow, 1995-96 (Manuscript). Voronina O. 2.6. Stereotyping and discrimination (sexism, nationalism). 2.7. Pornography: stereotyping women as sex objects. David Copp & Susan Wendell (eds.). Pornography and Censorship. Prometheus Books., 1983. 3. Gendered Practices 3.1. Gendered Work. 3.1.1. A History of Gendered Work. Barbara Reskin and Irene Padavic. Women and men at Work. Thousand Oaks, London, New Delhi, Pine Forge Press, 1994. Evelyne Sullerot. Histoire et Sociologie du Travail Feminin. (Russian Translation) Moscow, Progress, 1973. Simone de Beauvoire. The Second Sex. (Russian translation). A. Bebel. Die Frau und der Sozialismus. (Russian translation) Moscow. 1959. 3.1.2 Sex Segregation at Work Betty Friedan. The Feminine Mystique. Moscow, Progress Publishers Group «Litera», 1994. Pamela Abbott and Claire Wallace. An Introduction to Sociology. Feminist Perspectives. London and New York. Routledge, 1995. M. Gallagher (in collaboration with My von Euler). An Unfinished Story: Gender Patterns in Media Employment. Unesco Publishing, 1995. Evelyne Sullerot. Histoire et Sociologie du Travail Feminin. (Russian Translation) Moscow, Progress, 1973. 3.1.3. Sexual Harassment at Work Place. Sexual Harassment at Work (Sexualnyje Domogatelstva na Rabote). Moscow, 1996. Susan L. Webb. Step Forward. Sexual Harassment in the Workplace. What you need to know. Mastermedia, 1991. 3.1.4. Paid Work and Family Work Ann Oakly. The Economics of Housework. Pamela Abbott and Claire Wallace. An Introduction to Sociology. Feminist Perspectives. London and New York. Routledge, 1995. M. Gallagher (in collaboration with My von Euler). An Unfinished Story: Gender Patterns in Media Employment. Unesco Publishing, 1995. 3.2. Prostitution. E. Dupouy. Prostitution in the Ancient Times (in Russian). Kishinev, «Logos», 1991. Lebina N.B., Shkarevsky M.V. Prostitution in Petersburg. - Progress- Academia, Moscow, 1994. Carole Pateman. The Sexual Contract. Stanford University Press, Ch. 7. What is Wrong with Prostitution? 4.1. Gendered sexual scenarios. Korolenko Z.P. Mythology of Sex ( in Russian). Kransnoyarsk, 1994. 3.2.1. Gender stereotypes and rape. Levitskaja A.G., Orlik Je.N., Potapova Je.P. Date Rape: Violence or the ritual of sex element? (In Russian). In: Sociological Research. 1993, No 6. P. 92-98. Pamela Abbott and Claire Wallace. An Introduction to Sociology. Feminist Perspectives. London and New York. Routledge,Ђ1995. Mary Vetterling-Braggin, Frederick A. Elliston @ Jane English (eds.). Feminism and Philosophy. Rowman&Littlefield Publishers, Inc, Totowa, New Jersey, 1977. 5.1. Political Participation of Women and Men. Zdravomyslova Je., Tjomkina A. (eds.) Gender Dimension of the Social and Political Participation under Transition (IN Russian). St. Petersburg, 1996. Jerebkina I. The Female, the Political, the Uncounscious. Kharkiv, 1996. 5.1.2. Feminism, Feminisms, Feminists 5.1.2.1. Liberal Feminism 5.1.2.2. Marxist Feminism 5.1.2.3. Radical Feminism 5.1.2.4. Psychoanalytic Feminism Feminism: East and West (In Russian). Moscow, 1994. Pamela Abbott and Claire Wallace. An Introduction to Sociology. Feminist Perspectives. London and New York. Routledge, 1995. Betty Friedan. The Feminine Mystique. Moscow, Progress Publishers Group «Litera», 1994. Chapter 4. Gisela Kaplan. Contemporary Western European Feminism. N.Y. University Press. Washington Square, New York, 1992. Nancy J. Chodorov. What is the Relation between Psychoanalytic Feminism and the Psychoanalytic Psychology of Women? In: Theoretical Perspectives on Sexual Difference. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1989. P. 114-130. M. Schuler (ed.) We claim our rights ( In Russian). Moscow, Publishers. 1996 Millett K. Sexual Politics. (Doubleday: New York) Excerpts in Russian printed in the Voprosy Filosofii, 1994. N 9. Feminism: Perspectives of the Social Knowledg. Moscow, 1992. (in Russian) Theory and history of Feminism. Kharkov, 1996 S. de Beauvoir. The Second Sex. (in Russian) 5.2. The women’s Liberation Movement in Russia. History and modernity. Richard Stites. The Women’s Liberation Movement in Russia. Feminism, Nihilism, and Bolshevism, 1860-1930. Women in the October Revolution (in Russian). (Oktabrjiom mobilizovannyje). Polizdat, Moscow, 1987. Hasbulatova O.A. The Experience and Traditions of the Women’s Movement in Russia. Ivanovo, 1994. (IN Russian) 5.3 The Negative Image of Feminism in Russia and other countries. Feminism and antifeminism. Women’s NGO’s and their political participation. Section «Feminisms» in: Replika, 1996, Special Issue. Christina Hoff Sommers. Who stole feminism? How women have betrayed women. New York et. al. Simon and Schuster. 1994. 3.3.4. Women in Siberia. Anne Rassweiler. Women’s Revolution: Siberia in the 1920’s. In: Women of Russia –– Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (in Russian). –– Moscow, Izdatelskiy centr «Rossija molodaja». Moscow, 1994. Balahnina M.V. Western Siberian Women at Work and at Home (1921-1929). Novosibirsk, 1997. (Manuscript).
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